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Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers
- Source :
- Science, Science, 2017, 358 (6363), pp.659-662. ⟨10.1126/science.aao1807⟩, Sikora, M, Seguin-Orlando, A, Sousa, V C, Albrechtsen, A, Korneliussen, T, Ko, A, Rasmussen, S, Dupanloup, I, Nigst, P R, Bosch, M D, Renaud, G, Allentoft, M E, Margaryan, A, Vasilyev, S V, Veselovskaya, E V, Borutskaya, S B, Deviese, T, Comeskey, D, Higham, T, Manica, A, Foley, R, Meltzer, D J, Nielsen, R, Excoffier, L, Lahr, M M, Orlando, L & Willerslev, E 2017, ' Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers ', Science, vol. 358, no. 6363, eaao1807, pp. 659-662 . https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao1807, Sikora, M, Seguin-Orlando, A, Sousa, V C, Albrechtsen, A, Korneliussen, T S, Ko, A, Rasmussen, S, Dupanloup, I, Nigst, P R, Bosch, M D, Renaud, G, Allentoft, M E, Margaryan, A, Vasilyev, S V, Veselovskaya, E V, Borutskaya, S B, Deviese, T, Comeskey, D, Higham, T, Manica, A, Foley, R, Meltzer, D J, Nielsen, R, Excoffler, L, Lahr, M M, Orlando, L A A & Willerslev, E 2017, ' Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers ', Science, vol. 358, no. 6363, pp. 659-662 . https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao1807
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2017.
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Abstract
- Present-day hunter-gatherers (HGs) live in multilevel social groups essential to sustain a population structure characterized by limited levels of within-band relatedness and inbreeding. When these wider social networks evolved among HGs is unknown. Here, we investigate whether the contemporary HG strategy was already present in the Upper Paleolithic (UP), using complete genome sequences from Sunghir, a site dated to ~34 thousand years BP (kya) containing multiple anatomically modern human (AMH) individuals. We demonstrate that individuals at Sunghir derive from a population of small effective size, with limited kinship and levels of inbreeding similar to HG populations. Our findings suggest that UP social organization was similar to that of living HGs, with limited relatedness within residential groups embedded in a larger mating network.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Genetics
education.field_of_study
Multidisciplinary
Population
Biology
biology.organism_classification
Social group
03 medical and health sciences
030104 developmental biology
0302 clinical medicine
Evolutionary biology
Anatomically modern human
[SDE]Environmental Sciences
Upper Paleolithic
Kinship
Mating
10. No inequality
Social organization
education
Inbreeding
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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- ISSN :
- 00368075 and 10959203
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Science, Science, 2017, 358 (6363), pp.659-662. ⟨10.1126/science.aao1807⟩, Sikora, M, Seguin-Orlando, A, Sousa, V C, Albrechtsen, A, Korneliussen, T, Ko, A, Rasmussen, S, Dupanloup, I, Nigst, P R, Bosch, M D, Renaud, G, Allentoft, M E, Margaryan, A, Vasilyev, S V, Veselovskaya, E V, Borutskaya, S B, Deviese, T, Comeskey, D, Higham, T, Manica, A, Foley, R, Meltzer, D J, Nielsen, R, Excoffier, L, Lahr, M M, Orlando, L & Willerslev, E 2017, ' Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers ', Science, vol. 358, no. 6363, eaao1807, pp. 659-662 . https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao1807, Sikora, M, Seguin-Orlando, A, Sousa, V C, Albrechtsen, A, Korneliussen, T S, Ko, A, Rasmussen, S, Dupanloup, I, Nigst, P R, Bosch, M D, Renaud, G, Allentoft, M E, Margaryan, A, Vasilyev, S V, Veselovskaya, E V, Borutskaya, S B, Deviese, T, Comeskey, D, Higham, T, Manica, A, Foley, R, Meltzer, D J, Nielsen, R, Excoffler, L, Lahr, M M, Orlando, L A A & Willerslev, E 2017, ' Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers ', Science, vol. 358, no. 6363, pp. 659-662 . https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao1807
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....37cef1e9ce3fde90f04ed79ef7c9bef8